The Arizona sentinel., 1887-02-19

any point or the score Ol tlle Sdlle IuoH playing and defending. Cases stated to show what may be effected by a very good player in critical parts of the game. Calculations directing with moral certainty how to play well any hand or game, with variety of cases added in the appendix. By gentle man."
 The book had great and rapid suc- cess. Edition after edition was sold, and Hoyle received one thousand pounds the first year. He states in this "Short Treatise" that he has framed an artificial memory for whist players, which he will communicate upon payment of guinea, and that he will explain any case in the book upon payment of one guinea more. Later editions contain his system of mem- ories, but good players say it is of no great value. It consists of mode of arranging the suits in your hand that a keen-eyed opponent may often detect.
 The effect of Hoyle's promulgation of the game in its improved form ex- cited good deal of satire. In the same year, 1743, there was published a witty and amusing play on 1.-The Humors of Whist; Dramatic Satire, as Acted Every Day at Whites and Other Coffee Houses" It is short comedy, the prin- cipal characters being Prof. Winston (Hoyle), who gives lessons in the game; Sir Calculation Puzzle, an enthusiastic player, who muddles his head with Hoyle's calculations and always loses; pupils, sharpers and their dupes. The object is chiefly to ridicule the preten- sions of Hoyle and the enthusiasm of his followers, and to show that skill and calculations are of no avail against bad luck or fraud. Hoyle had given out that he had spent forty years in its study, and the prologue says:
 Who would believe that man could e'er exist, Who spent near half an age in studying whist? | Grow gray with calculation, labor hard, | As if life's business centered in a card?
 That such there is. let me to those appeal | Who with such liberal hands reward his zeal, | Sol whist he makes a science, and our peers Deign to turn schoolboys in their riper years.
 Sir Calculation Puzzle gives some amusing explanations of his loses. He says:
 ''That certainly was the most out-of- the-way bite ever heard of Upon the pinch of the game, when he must in- fallibly have lost it, the dog ate the los ing card, by which means we dealt again, and faith he won the game. Another passage is: q find, Professor, your book does not teach how to beat four by honors. In my opinion there is still something wanting to complete the system of whist, and that is a dis sertation on the lucky chair" In ad- dition to whist Hoyle also wrote treatises on quadrille, piquet, chess, backgammon and brag.
 Hoyle now became the celebrity he has continued to be down to our own day. His book, not himself, is ire quently mentioned in the literature of the eigteenth century. In Tom Jones' Lord Fellmar says: '1happened to come home several hours before my usual time, when I find four gen tlemen or the cloth (servants) at whist by my fire; and my Hoyle, sir, my best Hoyle, which cost me a guinea, lying open on the table, with a quaiti- ty of porter split on one of the most material leaves of the whole book"
 An epic poem on whist by Alexander Thompson appeared in 1791, which contains an apostrophe to the spirit of Hoyle.
 | But why thus vainly hesitates the Muse,
 In idle doubt what guardian power to chuse; | What power so well can aid her daring toil- | As the bright spirit of immortal Hoyle?
 By whose enlightened efforts Whist became A sober, serious, scientific game.
 The poet thus goes on to suppose that the shadowy ghost of Hoyle still hovers around the tempting boards arrayed in green.
 Still with delight its favorite game regards, And, though it plays no more, oerlooks the
 cards.
 The laws of the game, as propounded by Hoyle in 1743, remained the only recognized authority until 1864, when a committee of the great whist clubs oi London revised the old code and added some new laws. Hoyle's laws are, however, the basis. Whether the game of whist, if well followed, promotes longevity, may be question, but it is certain MT. Hoyle is an example that ii does. He died in London on the 29th of August, 1769, at the age of ninety. seven. The papers of the day notice his death, and state that he was well known in the polite world, and that he lived to see his treatise on whist pas: through no less than thirteen editions And thus, full of years and honors, and secure of immortal fame, passed away the father of whist, Edmond Hoyle.- Chicago Herald.
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